2023–24 I-League 2

2023–24 I-League 2 was the 16th season of the I-League 2 since its establishment in 2008. It was also the 2nd season as the third tier of the Indian football league system. The top two clubs on the league table will secure a place in the 2024–25 I-League season.

I-League 2

Season	2023–24
Dates	20 January – 27 April 2024[1]
Champions	Sporting Bengaluru
Promoted	Sporting Bengaluru Dempo
Relegated	Kenkre Maharashtra Oranje
Matches played	56
Goals scored	161 (2.88 per match)
Top goalscorer	Thomyo L Shimray Sahil Harijan (11 goals)
Biggest home win	Maharashtra Oranje 3-0 Sudeva Delhi (1 Feb 2024) Bengaluru United 3-0 Sudeva Delhi (12 Feb 2024) Dempo 4-1 Maharashtra Oranje (30 Mar 2024) Sporting Bengaluru 3-0 Dempo (6 Apr 2024) Maharashtra Oranje 3-0 Sporting Goa (14 Apr 2024)
Biggest away win	Kenkre 0-4 Dempo (15 Apr 2024) Kenkre 0-4 Sporting Bengaluru (21 Apr 2024)
Highest scoring	Kenkre 3-5 Sudeva Delhi (11 Apr 2024) United 5-3 Bengaluru United (14 Apr 2024)
Longest winning run	7 matches Sporting Bengaluru
Longest unbeaten run	7 matches Sporting Bengaluru
Longest winless run	7 matches Maharashtra Oranje
Longest losing run	6 matches Maharashtra Oranje
Highest attendance	1,235 Sporting Bengaluru 1–0 Sporting Goa (24 Mar 2024)
Lowest attendance	10 Bengaluru United 1-2 Dempo (3 Apr 2024)
Total attendance	11,798
Average attendance	210
← 2022–23 2024–25 →

This was the first edition where the clubs have been reinstated from the previous season, after approval from the league committee on 13 January 2023.^[2][3]

Changes from last season

Teams

Promotion from 2023–24 I-League 3

• Sporting Goa
• Dempo
• Sporting Bengaluru

Source:^[4]

Reinstatement from 2022–23 I-League 2 Final Round

• Ambernath United Atlanta (now, Maharashtra Oranje)
• Bengaluru United
• United

Relegation from 2022–23 I-League

• Kenkre
• Sudeva Delhi

Promotion to 2023–24 I-League

• Delhi
• Shillong Lajong

With the introduction of the 4th tier I-League 3, the teams participating in I-League 2 have been reduced to 8.

Clubs

• Clubs relegated from 2022–23 I-League enter I-League 2.
• Clubs not promoted to 2023–24 I-League in the previous season are reinstated.
• Clubs promoted from 2023–24 I-League 3 enter I-League 2.

2023–24 I-League 2 clubs

Sudeva Delhi

United

Mumbai

Mumbai clubs:
Maharashtra Oranje
Kenkre

Goa

Goa clubs:
Dempo
Sporting Goa

Bengaluru

Bengaluru clubs:
Bengaluru United
Sporting Bengaluru

Locations of I-League 2 clubs

Source:^[5]

Club	State	City	Stadium	Capacity
United	West Bengal	Kalyani	Kalyani Stadium	20,000
Maharashtra Oranje	Maharashtra	Mumbai	COE Kharghar	5,000
Kenkre
Sudeva Delhi	Delhi	New Delhi	Ambedkar Stadium	15,000
Bengaluru United	Karnataka	Bengaluru	Padukone & Dravid COE	250
Sporting Bengaluru			Bangalore Football Stadium	8,400
Sporting Goa	Goa	Panaji	Tilak Maidan	5,000
Dempo			Ella Ground	500

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Bengaluru United	Fernando Varela	Faiz Khan	HYVE	NIMIDA
Dempo	Samir Naik	Ariston Costa	Shiv-Naresh	Dempo
Maharashtra Oranje	Augusto Wilson Da Silva	Manish Malyadri Siddha	KING	AWSCA
Kenkre	Akhil Kothari	Raul Almeida	Hummel	Kenkre Sports Foundation
Sporting Bengaluru	Chinta Chandrashekar Rao	Manoj Swamy Kannan	MS Sportswear	Sporting Group International
Sporting Goa	Armando Colaco	Joel Colaco		Models
Sudeva Delhi	Chencho Dorji	Ashray Bhardwaj	Shiv-Naresh	HCL
United	Steve Herbots	Sanjib Mondal	Trak Only

League table

Source:^[6]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sporting Bengaluru (C)	14	11	0	3	28	12	+16	33	Promotion to I-League[7]
2	Dempo	14	8	3	3	21	13	+8	27
3	Sudeva Delhi	14	7	2	5	17	19	−2	23
4	Bengaluru United	14	6	2	6	21	19	+2	20
5	Sporting Goa	14	6	1	7	19	18	+1	19
6	United	14	4	3	7	18	21	−3	15
7	Maharashtra Oranje	14	4	3	7	20	25	−5	15	Relegation to I-League 3[8]
8	Kenkre	14	3	0	11	17	34	−17	9

Source: I-League 2 AIFF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored; 7) fair play ranking; 8) drawing of lots
(C) Champions

Results

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away	SCB	DEM	SUD	BEN	SCG	USC	MAO	KEN
Sporting Bengaluru	—	3–0	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	4–3
Dempo	1–0	—	3–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	4–1	0–2
Sudeva Delhi	0–1	0–0	—	1–0	1–0	1–0	3–2	2–1
Bengaluru United	0–1	1–2	3–0	—	1–0	2–2	2–1	4–2
Sporting Goa	4–3	0–1	1–1	1–0	—	1–2	2–0	2–1
United	1–0	0–1	0–1	5–3	0–2	—	1–1	0–1
Maharashtra Oranje	0–2	2–2	3–0	2–2	3–0	2–5	—	1–0
Kenkre	0–4	0–4	3–5	0–2	2–5	2–0	0–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 27 April 2024. Source: I-League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Results by games

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Maharashtra Oranje	D	L	W	W	L	L	L	L	L	L	D	W	D	W
Bengaluru United	W	W	W	L	D	W	W	W	L	L	D	L	L	L
United	W	L	L	L	D	W	L	L	L	L	D	W	D	W
Kenkre	L	L	W	L	W	L	L	L	L	W	L	L	L	L
Sudeva Delhi	D	W	L	L	L	W	D	W	W	W	W	L	W	L
Sporting Goa	D	W	L	W	W	L	L	L	W	W	W	L	L	L
Dempo	D	L	W	L	W	W	D	W	W	L	D	W	W	W
Sporting Bengaluru	L	W	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	W	W	W

Updated to match(es) played on 27 Apr 2024. Source: I-League
W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 27 April 2024

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[9][10]
1	Thomyo L Shimray	Sporting Bengaluru	11
	Sahil Harijan	United
3	Sanchit Singh	Maharashtra Oranje	9
4	Alister Anthony	Sporting Goa	8
5	Ramesh Chhetri	Sudeva Delhi	5

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
Sahil Harijan	United	Maharashtra Oranje	5–2 (A)	12 February 2024	[11]
Alister Anthony	Sporting Goa	Kenkre	5–2 (A)	2 April 2024	[12]
Thomyo L Shimray	Sporting Bengaluru	Kenkre	4–0 (A)	21 April 2024	[13]

Clean sheets

As of 27 April 2024

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Ashish Sibi	Sudeva Delhi	5
2	Vishal Joon	Bengaluru United	4
	Satyajit Bordoloi	Sporting Bengaluru
	Mukunthan Ravi Kumar	Maharashtra Oranje
5	Niraj Kumar	Sporting Bengaluru	3
	Dylan D'Silva	Sporting Goa
	Harsh Rajesh Patil	Kenkre
	Sangramjit Roy Chowdhury	Dempo
9	Wellyster Mendes	Dempo	2
10	Suvam Sen	United SC	1

Broadcast

Home games of Maharashtra Oranje are broadcast by SportsCast India while all games of Sporting Goa and Dempo are broadcast by SportsKPI on their respective official YouTube channels.^[14][15]

Club	Broadcaster	Reference
Maharashtra Oranje	SportsCast India	[14]
Sporting Goa	SportsKPI	[15]
Dempo

Attendances

Overall statistical table

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Sporting Bengaluru	3,412	1,235	50	487	n/a††
2	Sporting Goa	1,900	500	50	271	n/a††
3	Sudeva Delhi	1,805	500	100	257	−68.3%†
4	United	1,606	500	26	229	−53.0%†
5	Dempo	1,195	350	50	170	+6.3%†
6	Maharashtra Oranje	855	250	50	122	−89.5%†
7	Bengaluru United	615	245	10	87	−65.1%†
8	Kenkre	410	100	40	58	−94.6%†
	League total	11,798	1,235	10	210	−55.8%†

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:
^† Kenkre and Sudeva Delhi played in the I-League in the 2022–23 season.
^†† Attendance count for Sporting Goa and Sporting Bengaluru starts from this season.

Attendances by home matches

Team \ Match played	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Sporting Bengaluru	400	400	400	527	1,235	400	50	3,412
Sporting Goa	400	120	50	280	250	500	300	1,900
Sudeva Delhi	100	500	125	350	200	300	230	1,805
United	500	300	300	300	50	26	130	1,606
Dempo	125	150	50	220	200	100	350	1,195
Maharashtra Oranje	100	250	130	75	150	100	50	855
Bengaluru United	125	100	50	45	40	10	245	615
Kenkre	50	65	100	60	40	45	50	410

Legend:   Highest   Lowest
Updated to game(s) played on 27 April 2024
Source: I-League.org

See also

• Men
  • 2023–24 Indian Super League (Tier I)
  • 2023–24 I-League (Tier II)
  • 2023–24 I-League 3 (Tier IV)
  • 2023–24 Indian State Leagues (Tier V)
  • 2024 Super Cup
  • 2023 Durand Cup
  • 2024 Reliance Foundation Development League
• Women
  • 2023–24 Indian Women's League
  • 2023–24 Indian Women's League 2